Downstairs vs Basement - What's the difference?
downstairs | basement |
A floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies.
(slang) The genitalia
A floor of a building below ground level.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Last place in a sports conference standings.
As nouns the difference between downstairs and basement
is that downstairs is (slang) the genitalia while basement is a floor of a building below ground level.As an adjective downstairs
is a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies.As an adverb downstairs
is living, stepping, or coming down the stairs.downstairs
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Adjective
(further)Noun
(-)- The wind lifted up her skirt and I caught a glimpse of her downstairs .